EarlyAccess was devised as a way of allowing people to get access to some OpenSkills facilities while their membership application was being completed. It was a side-line, off the main membership process path.

In the new process, the concept of Subscriber is the closest to the old EarlyAccess idea, but being a subscriber is now a normal step on the way to membership. We think this is much easier to deal with and understand.

Everyone who was using EarlyAccess has now been migrated to the new programme and are subscribers.

If you would like to see the (rather extensive) detail of the EarlyAccess programme, see the history of this page.